I have been interested in nature all my life. Living things, trees, rocks, leaves, flowers, bees, the ocean, shells and cactuses. If it is an oddity, I am all in. My husband, Rich, knows full well what I mean. I can’t even count on the hands and toes of everyone I have ever come across how many times I have said to him, “look at this!!” and then show him some weird piece of nature. In addition to being a nature explorer, I also love to sew. It started with my mom. She was always needlepointing, embroidering or crocheting. She had a lot of hobbies like me. I would watch her in amazement create a beautiful blanket or a nativity set for her collection and think, how can she be so talented? She was. Every cell in her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I followed in her footsteps by needlepointing with a pattern. Carefully placing all the “x’s” and counting. Then it was free form. I would just start creating on a blank canvas. Then embroidery. That was always free hand- wildflowers, mason jars, a little girl at the center looking sad. Then I would put those in a shadowbox and add dried flowers to the bottom. Nature. I was not hindered by logic. The more chaotic and fun, the better. Colors, texture, fibers, solid elements, flowers. Sew them right in. I saw a few folks on Instagram that did chunky, nature weaving and I fell in love. It literally combined all of my sewing, junk journaling, ocean art and fiber in 1 single piece of art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I followed some great folks like Moth Metal, Roving Textiles, Nova Mercury, The Woven Hand, Ashton Zager Fiber Art I realized I found where I am supposed to be. This community is full of emotion, raw honesty, passion and a need to create to heal the mind and heart. I am a beginner to weaving but not a beginner in art and combining all of them to create unique, intentional, raw pieces is a blessing and I am grateful for the time and energy needed. I hope I do the community proud. Not I hope, I WILL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been interested in nature all my life. Living things, trees, rocks, leaves, flowers, bees, the ocean, shells and cactuses. If it is an oddity, I am all in. My husband, Rich, knows full well what I mean. I can’t even count on the hands and toes of everyone I have ever come across how many times I have said to him, “look at this!!” and then show him some weird piece of nature. In addition to being a nature explorer, I also love to sew. It started with my mom. She was always needlepointing, embroidering or crocheting. She had a lot of hobbies like me. I would watch her in amazement create a beautiful blanket or a nativity set for her collection and think, how can she be so talented? She was. Every cell in her. I followed in her footsteps by needlepointing with a pattern. Carefully placing all the “x’s” and counting. Then it was free form. I would just start creating on a blank canvas. Then embroidery. That was always free hand- wildflowers, mason jars, a little girl at the center looking sad. Then I would put those in a shadowbox and add dried flowers to the bottom. Nature. I was not hindered by logic. The more chaotic and fun, the better. Colors, texture, fibers, solid elements, flowers. Sew them right in. I saw a few folks on Instagram that did chunky, nature weaving and I fell in love. It literally combined all of my sewing, junk journaling, ocean art and fiber in 1 single piece of art. As I followed some great folks like Moth Metal, Roving Textiles, Nova Mercury, The Woven Hand, Ashton Zager Fiber Art I realized I found where I am supposed to be. This community is full of emotion, raw honesty, passion and a need to create to heal the mind and heart. I am a beginner to weaving but not a beginner in art and combining all of them to create unique, intentional, raw pieces is a blessing and I am grateful for the time and energy needed. I hope I do the community proud. Not I hope, I WILL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken-beach-talk"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"bard-slider-grid-thumbnail":false,"bard-full-thumbnail":false,"bard-grid-thumbnail":false,"bard-list-thumbnail":false,"bard-single-navigation":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Susan Villanova","author_link":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/author\/suevillanova\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I have been interested in nature all my life. Living things, trees, rocks, leaves, flowers, bees, the ocean, shells and cactuses. If it is an oddity, I am all in. My husband, Rich, knows full well what I mean. I can’t even count on the hands and toes of everyone I have ever come across…","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brokenbeachart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}